Powell Smythe

{{short description|American 19th century politician}}

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Powell Smythe was a member of the South Carolina General Assembly during the Reconstruction era. He represented Clarendon County, South Carolina.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJkPBy5b1hQC&q=Powell+Smythe+charleston&pg=PA30|title=The Congressional Globe|first=United States|last=Congress|publisher=Blair & Rives|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OiYaAQAAMAAJ&q=powell+smythe+south+carolina|title=Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives: Faunt, J.S.R. and Rector, R.E., with Bowden, D.K. Session lists, 1692-1973|first1=Walter B.|last1=Edgar|first2=N. Louise|last2=Bailey|date=July 11, 1974|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=9780872493049|via=Google Books}}

He served in the state House of Representatives in 1868 representing Clarendon County along with William Nelson.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnZMAAAAYAAJ&q=powell+smythe+south+carolina&pg=PA6|title=Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina|date=July 11, 1868|publisher=The State|via=Google Books}} He supported Franklin J. Moses Jr. having his "disabilities" removed in 1868 after the American Civil War.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJkPBy5b1hQC&q=powell+smythe+south+carolina&pg=PA30|title=The Congressional Globe|first=United States|last=Congress|publisher=Blair & Rives|via=Google Books}} An 1873 report showed him receiving 350 votes for a state representative seat.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LaCFmFoXaakC&q=powell+smythe+south+carolina&pg=PA86|title=Reports and Resolutions of South Carolina to the General Assembly|first=South|last=Carolina|date=July 11, 1873|via=Google Books}} His photograph was included in a montage of Radical Republican South Carolina legislators.{{cite web |title=Radical Members of the South Carolina Legislature |url=https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2008.9.29 |website=National Museum of African American History and Culture |accessdate=8 June 2020 |language=en |format=photograph and description |date=1868 |others=Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture}}